"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

Nightingale, Earl on attitude
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on death
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"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

La Fontaine, Jean De on death
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"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death
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"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]"

Bible on death
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death   

"I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave."

Horace on death   

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

La Bruyere, Jean De on death
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on death
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"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect."

Stone, W. Clement on sales
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"If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian."

Arnett, Ramona E.F. on job
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"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times."

Peale, Norman Vincent on belief
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"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

Plato on death   

"The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth."

Kabbalah on death   

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

Macdonald, George on age and aging   

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

Melville, Herman on age and aging   

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

Mcdonald, Trevor on age and aging   

"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging
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"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

Durrell, Lawrence on age and aging   

"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing on age and aging
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"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield on age and aging   

"If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!"

Day, Doris on age and aging
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"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."

Defoe, Daniel on age and aging
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"Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging   

"One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past."

Johnson on age and aging   

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."

Greier, John on age and aging   

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation."

Davis, Mrs Hubbard on death
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"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

Donne, John on death
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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

Donne, John on death
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"To die is landing on some distant shore."

Dryden, John on death